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Product Designer

Sakana AI

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Design AI-native experiences for products like Sakana Chat, Marlin, and Fugu.
  • Explore how users trust AI, delegate tasks, and collaborate with it.
  • Lead Sakana AI's design culture and shape vision for AI product experiences.

Ideal candidate

Experienced product designer passionate about frontier AI UX who thrives in ambiguity and crafts trusted, human-centered AI experiences for global impact.

Requirements

  • 5+ years as Product Designer or similar role in software products
  • End-to-end design leadership from concept to delivery and post-release improvement
  • Product development with PdMs, engineers, researchers, business and customers
  • Improving experience via user research, usability testing and qualitative/quantitative insights
  • Strong craft in experience design, IA, interaction, visual, prototyping and design systems
  • High proficiency in Japanese and English for global team communication
  • Ability to structure ambiguous challenges and visualize for team decisions
hiring process
Document screening followed by design assignment; portfolio and English cover letter required to apply.

Lab profile

About Sakana AI

Tokyo AI lab building nature-inspired generative AI, LLMs and recursive self-improving systems for enterprise use.

What they build

  • Sakana Chat
  • Sakana Marlin
  • Sakana Fugu

Known for

  • Collective intelligence
  • Model orchestration
  • Recursive self-improvement
  • Large language model development

Key facts

  • Founded in 2023
  • Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan
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